Copyright Notices

It is important that every file in your submission contain a copyright notice. Since you wrote the file, you hold the copyright. In all RTF files you should use the "©" symbol (try Alternate-c under NEXTSTEP to get it) in a message such as this:

Copyright © [year] [copyright holder]. All Rights Reserved. Version [version].

If in a non-RTF file, you must completely spell out the word "Copyright" since typing "(C)" is not sufficient. In a source code file, something like this should be at the top:

//
//	[file name] -- [one or two line summary]
//		Written by [author name] Copyright [year] by [copyright holder].
//				Version [version].  All rights reserved.
//
//		This notice may not be removed from this source code.
//
//	This object is included in the MiscKit by permission from the author
//	and its use is governed by the MiscKit license, found in the file
//	"License.rtf" in the MiscKit distribution.  Please refer to that file
//	for a list of all applicable permissions and restrictions.
//	

All submissions need to have a copyright notice and a paragraph mentioning the fact that it has been licensed for use in the MiscKit according to the terms of the License.rtf file. Without this, the submission cannot legally be added to the MiscKit. The easiest way to comply is cut and paste the above text into your submission.

Note that usually the copyright holder will be the same as the author--but this does not have to be the case. The author can transfer the copyright to someone else.

You can use the actual © symbol itself in your source code, as well. If you have RTF source code, just type Alt-c or Alt-C. Since RTF source code is strongly discouraged, however, the only way to enter the © symbol is to type, in a Terminal.app window:

echo "c" | tr 'c' '\240'

It will give you a character you can cut and paste. Once you've grabbed the character, you may want to add it to the expansion dictionary in Edit.app (Command-E).